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UNITEO STATES PATENT OEEICE.

GEORGE w. KELsEY, OE OHIOAGO, ILLINOIS, AssIGNOE 'ro MARY A. KELsEY,

OF SAME PLACE.

FLY-N ET FOR HORSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364.020. dated May 31, 18/87.

- Application tiled April 5, 1887. Serial No, 233,707. (No modul.)

a citizen of the United States, and a resident and the transverse cording.

of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fly-Nets, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings illustrating. the invention, in whiehl ,l

Figure I represents my improved y-net on a horse. Fig. II is a detail portion thereof enlarged.

This invention relates to novel means for' connecting the lower webbing with the lashes The advantages attained are a cheaper net Aand one that will not tangle iu use, and one Vthat the cording cannot be drawn through the lower webbing to put the net out of shape. It has been the custom to weave the transverse cording into the webbing, but not to weave the cording in the webbing to form loops on both edges of the webbing, as herein shown.

E represents the back webbing, A the side webbing, and B'the lower webbing, to the net. D D D represent the cording, which is woven into the webbing E A in a manner well known in the art of making flynets, but the -cording is woven into the webbing B, so as to form loops J at the top edge thereof and loops I at the bot-'tom edge thereof. The purpose of the loops I is for means for attaching the lashes -G are made of leather or some material which is stiff enough not to become tangled.

The lashes C may be secured to the loops I by being lapped around them and the laps fastened by rivets or wound bywire, or they may be slotted at the ends and. looped Onto the loops I by putting the lashthrough the slot. The rivet attachment is shown at S, and the slotted loop attachment at V. From this it will be seen that the net is quite light above the webbing B, whereby the heavier lashes C will keep the cording D from getting tangled.

I claim and desire to secure by Letter's'Patent of the United States- An improvement in fly-nets for horses, eon-Y jv 

